Whole house speech recognition

[ddxfish]

I post here once and a while about Speech Recognition and its application to home automation.

I finally found a working method for using it around my house.

My setup is Vista, with SAPI 5.3, a MagicJack, a cordless phone, and a headset.

I plug the magic jack in, and it launches its software-- i then stop the software for magicjack (when you pick up the phone now, no dial tone)

In vista, i right click my volume icon and go to recording devices. I then choose 'handset' as my default device and start the speech recognition engine.

The accuracy is over 95% for speech recognition. Much better than my bluetooth headset, and also better than my AM-100 (which works well also).



Hope this helps someone, and if anyone knows an easier method Im all ears!

 

[signal15]

For those that like hacking around with stuff, Misterhouse has speech recognition:

http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

You can place mics around your house, and have a keyword to start it listening. If you're a Trekkie, you'd naturally use "computer" for your keyword. So you can give it commands like "Computer, Kitchen Lights, 50%"

There's a hardware list on the site of what equipment you would need. But it's better than walking around with a headset. In reality, you could program the whole system to do everything with voice, negating the need for touchscreens. It's pretty flexible.